Science with the AstroSat Soft X-ray telescope: An overview

The Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) aboard the AstroSat satellite is first Indian telescope in space. It a modest size with charge coupled device (CCD) camera focal plane, which provides images $$\sim $$ 0.3–8.0 keV band. A forte of SXT providing undistorted spectra relatively bright sources, it excels over some current large CCD-based telescopes. Here, we highlight published spectral and timing results obtained using data to demonstrate capabilities overall performance this telescope.